EVE New Citizens Q&A

Buy PLEX.
Sell on market.
Stop wasting your lifetime grinding for pixelmoney and have fun instead.

Try putting Overdrive Injectors on the Isk to make it fast.

Mining, oh how it is hated. But it does have advantages, at least for some. I am going to lay a few things out using this new alt, just so any similarly situated might also see mining in a different light.

I currently do most things available in the game to some extent. But mining is the single thing I do most, although pvp is catching up now.

I am online on one or more of my 3 accounts and 7 characters quite a bit. When I mine, I am making isk, and I am doing other things. Like reading, etc. about things in Eve Online I wish to learn more about. Or perhaps doing some real life money making work. Or perhaps working on one of those "honey do lists" that makes my sexy wife happy, which has infinite benefits. Etc.

The isk value of the mining, all things considered (ore, refined minerals, salvaged mats, looted stuff from belt rat kills, bounties) probably averages about 15-20 million isk an hour in high sec with a decent mining alt with someone like this guy fleeted up and just hanging around outside the station. Check out mining leadership bonuses in a fleet, which only requires 2 characters.

If I work an hour at my real life money-making work, and yes, I can do that quite a bit sitting at a good computer with all the technology available today, I can make more than enough in an hour of afk mining to buy a plex, and still come out ahead in extra real life money earned for just about every hour so worked/mined. I also have the ore and salvage and loot from rat kills on top of that. And doing the ingame mining and the other activities is not boring, because unlike all the mining haters, I am not merely mining, but multi-tasking.

I mostly use the materials and refined minerals from afk mining via one of my alts to make stuff, which I sell using a trader alt, after I use my hauler alt to get the stuff to the trader alt's current trading hub home.

And oh yes, by doing all those other things while afk mining, I can focus when doing something like pvp, during which I do not multi-task.

I am building quite an Empire, I am quite wealthy in the game, without scamming, I am having fun, I am learning more and more about this great sandbox game, and fortunately, since I multi-task when mining, none of this has detracted from my real life advancement.

So, while I agree that if all you were to do were to sit and stare at your mining lasers, that definitely would be very boring very fast, I am in fact mining quite a bit, and not simply staring at my mining lasers.

Eve is a sandbox. Once you realize that, and once you get past the horrible initial learning curve and grasp some basic things, you can chart your own course.

And with all that said, here is my number one PRO TIP: Do NOT waste time worrying about what other players think, but instead find your particular path, and go for it!

mine in null sec. The ore is better here. make a lot more $$ off of it.

Notice the only guy making a positive remark, uses a collection of alts. Mining is not the fastest way to make ISK. It is the cheapest way to aquire minerals and nothing more.

Ya, but it is pretty inconstant. And not really fast unless you get lucky. And you have to compete with all the other scammers, who are generally more experienced at making good scams than you.

Plus the high competition and general wariness of the experienced players, who have the huge hords of isk. Sure it can be fun, but I don't now about fast esp for a newbie. ymmv.

If that is what you enjoy though, go for it.

No-one mentioned prostitution?

Oh you mean in game....

Gank a random frig going into jita and hope its full of plex.

Aye, true enough. I was talking in absolutes. The kind of absolute where ore is 'free'